Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 37

And after the suitors had been packed off, she used to beat Vasilissa by way of wreaking her spite.

Who acts: work, way · What happens: pack off, use, beat, wreak, spite · To what, where: suitors, Vasilissa, spite

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 used	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 packed	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 suitors	det
4	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 packed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 packed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 packed	aux:pass
7	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 used	advcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 packed	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 packed	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 beat	mark
13	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	xcomp
14	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 beat	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 way	case
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beat	obl
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 wreaking	mark
18	wreaking	wreak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 way	acl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 spite	nmod:poss
20	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wreaking	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pack off	past · perfect · passive		the suitors		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
2	use	past	work			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	beat	to-infinitive	work not said here	Vasilissa	by way	tree rules
4	wreak	gerund	way not said here	work's spite		tree rules
5	spite		work			nom spite «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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